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... royals who live/have lived in the building in front of me. After my touristic duties of snapping pictures was complete, I sat and ate one of my sandwiches. Not long after, a guy named Filip from Maryland asked me to take his picture in front of the palace. We started talking about traveling and our reasons for being in London and come to find out, he too was traveling solo- but for business. I was jealous that even in his early 20s, he already had a job that allowed him ...

... experience than what most are used to seeing. I won't bore you with the history of the place, but the area is like Golden Gate Park and Haight Street "rolled" into one. My San Francisco peeps will get what I'm talking about. The area made some people I was with uncomfortable, but for me it was like a piece of home. I could have chilled there all day!

Frankly, from what I had been told my expectations for London weren't very high. Yet, after spending 9 ...

... Tennis and Croquet Club. Sharon was able to score the tickets through a lottery system that is very difficult to have any success, much less get tickets for Centre Court matches. We took the Tube out to Wimbledon where we watched the two Number One professional tennis players on the circuit win their matches. We had a nice British lunch and saw some of the up and coming American players as well.

... to go to believe. After walking about 15000 steps and 30 sets of stairs we rested on the grassed areas along the pier and watched the tower bridge raise the bastilles to allow the larger boats to go past. This event only happens once a day at 6:30 pm. Boats need to book 24 hours in advance to pass through the gates. This was pretty cool to watch, everything comes to a halt while this is happening. Well we hope you enjoy the photo's. Miss you all Melissa, Ian, Paige and Keeley ...

... I remember correctly it was raining then as well. Getting to Pooh country involved a train ride to Tunbridge Wells then a bus into Hartfield. Luckily the rain eased to showers by the time we got to Hartfield. After a brief stop at the Pooh Corner Shop mum and I set out to find the bridge. The best way to get to the bridge is with a car but as we didn't have one we had to follow the public footpath .... Through paddocks and bushland. Mum was a trooper and never gave ...